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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The need to legislate and regulate obstetric violence to ensure women a real legal protection.

(Con)textos, 2022
Women across the world face multiple and intersecting forms of violence, both in private and public life. A form of violence during facility-based childbirth has been addressed and framed by the WHO and UN following women’s reports of abuse and ...
Alessandra Battisti
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Context and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019).
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

, 2022
[1] The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is one of the most important human rights → treaties in the world. Together with its sister Covenant, the → International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),
Joseph, Sarah
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the adaptive capacities of agrarian landscapes through participatory sketch mapping and spatial perceptions on landmark’s distribution and disparities

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences
Agrarian Landscapes are the natural basis for the survival and development of people in rural communities. Participatory sketch mapping refers to the collection of data (spatial, land use and land rights data) through the hand map drawing of study areas
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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Traditional Methods of Dealing with Conflicts among IDPs in Duhok Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan; including a case study of Yesidi mediators

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2018
The recent influx of internally displaced people (IDPs) into Kurdistan Region-Iraq with little hope of returning home has made peaceful coexistence within and between religious groups (both in host communities and IDP camps) a priority for local and ...
Maamoon Abdulsamad Mohammed, Zerevan S. Sadeeq, Jehan A. Abdullah, Sanaz Kamali   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political Economy of Right-to-Farm [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1999
AbstractThis paper investigates the motivations for local right-to-farm protection ordinances by estimating a logit model relating the adoption of these ordinances to various political, economic and demographic factors previously found to affect the likelihood of passage of farmland preservation policies.
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Friedman, Keith
openaire   +2 more sources

Why stay together? A pluralist approach to secession and federation. IHS Political Science Series No. 51, December 1997 [PDF]

, 1997
As a political doctrine nationalism has four distinctive features which make it unattractive from a liberal perspective. It promotes revisions of external state borders by secession and unification in order to create homogeneous nation-states; it ...
Bauböck, Rainer
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